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I arrived safely home Thursday afternoon! In the past 36 hours I have eaten La Hacienda, Chick-fil-A, homeade hamburgers, and Braum's ice cream. And I've had a Dr. Pepper. Nice.

Plus, I've hung out with my family, which has been awesome (more awesome than the American food I've eaten).

I'll try to catch up on blogging in the next few weeks. I have a lot of cool stories and photos to share!

Can't wait to see people and share stories and pictures in person!

Computer, A Week, and the 4th

My computer officially died the day before Laura left, so it has been interesting using the Internet cafes for all my computer needs. Needless to say, my updates will be infrequent if any for the remainder of my time. The cause of computer death is not certain, but the sand and small, dead, flying ants found on the motherboard were highly suspicious. What can I say other than TIA?

In other news, I'm down to a week and a day in Gulu. Crazy! I leave Gulu early on Monday, July 12. I will spend a couple days in Kampala seeing a few friends and visiting the African Craft Market then I fly out on the 14th. I arrive in Dallas in the afternoon on the 15th. I am excited to see everyone at home, but I am really sad to leave at the same time. Please keep the adjustment period and reverse culture-shock in prayer. I keep hearing that it is much harder than leaving!

Finally, last night the Foresters had a 4th of July celebration complete with red, white, and blue sprinkled cupcakes. It was a great time of fellowship with them and some other friends. Then today one of my favorite restaurants in Gulu, Sankofa, had hotdogs and hamburgers in honor of the 4th. I sported red, white and greenish-blue (the closest I had) and thoroughly enjoyed the American food. Of course we had to sing the National Anthem before leaving as well!

In the States!

Hello everyone! I am now back in the States (arrived late Thursday evening), and this will be my last blog post here. Since arriving, things have not been too eventful; I am adjusting back to the American culture. Last night I was able to go to my cousin’s graduation party, which was fun. My Mom, brother and I also went to see Toy Story 3, great movie! Everything here is much different than what I had become udapted to in Uganda.

I won’t write too much for this blog post, but just mention a few things from Uganda that took place shortly before I left. Last week in our neighborhood we had a girl accept Jesus. She brought back a friend when we met again and then several other English-speaking girls joined us. By the end of the day we had five girls pray to accept Jesus, it was really exciting!

Some things might have been lost in translation, but we will have several people meeting with them more to do some discipleship. Another girl from the neighborhood even came up to ask if she could talk to us as well, that was really neat, I’m excited to hear about what the follow-up has been like (I really have no idea where in the world all of the English speaking children came from).

Also: we had a crazy number of baptisms on Sunday at the new church; the deaf girl in our neighborhood learned a new word (airplane); we had a great dinner with the staff before I left; I was bit by a super ant; a woman asked us to marry her son after passing her on the road; I made fried okra in Uganda for the second time; Ashley and I pulled a prank in Uganda for the first time; and, lastly, I had many good times saying goodbye to some dear friends that I love very much.

Hopefully I will see many of you soon! I’d love to hear how all of you are doing also, and look forward to talking or spending time with you!